A free roaming VR gaming center in Melbourne has been opened by Zero Latency with the aim to make the gaming experience more immersive. Called Zero Latency, it already has players hooked and lining up to try it out.

Basically it is a massive 4,300 square foot warehouse that has been converted into an open space gaming center equipped with 129 PlayStation Eye cameras.

Each player wears motion-tracked Oculus Rift VR headsets and a backpack containing an Alienware PC, and wields a motion-tracked rifle.

From there they will be able to roam freely in the warehouse while playing what appears to be an FPS.

Virtual reality is where the future of gaming is likely heading, and a vast arena to experience it all might be a highly profitable venture for Zero Latency. By setting such high expectations, it’s no wonder the virtual reality games are already fully booked for the first weeks after opening. It could potentially be a goodbye to laser tag arenas that feature just bright lights and intricate corridors, or the possible bruises from paintball. While these kind of gaming centers are only budding here and there, I think it’s safe to say they’re here to stay. That will get players about 50 minutes of time in the zombie-infested virtual world with up to 6 players going at once. Thus far, those who have wanted the VR experience have had to purchase a headset on their own accord. The creators encourage you to imagine a game that doesn’t feel like a game at all. Where your body is the controller.

To play the game, players must physically move around the space, aiming and firing their weapons as if they were real. The team behind the facility has spent the last three years working on the technology, and it’s finally ready to roll it out to the masses.

Virtual Reality has quickly become the work of fiction into reality, much like drones. With continuous development from the 60s till nowadays, 3D pictures have certainly come a long way.